Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poems

The Dove and the Eagle.

In that soft season of the year,
When early daisies first appear,
And new-born violets dare unfold
The freshness of the virgin mould;
When airs, of late so wild and rude,
With soothing whispers stir the wood,
And wakening nature feels the power
Of genial sun and kindly shower,
And the sweet season's influence
Breathes softening over every sense;
An Eagle, king of some high peak,
'Mid icy cliffs and breezes bleak,
Returning from the troubled shore
Where mingling winds and waters roar;
His lordly stomach gorged with prey
From screaming sea-hawk snatched away,
As stately onwards sweeping through
The fields of heaven's celestial blue,

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